Kevin Beaumont6d ago
If you enjoy watching old people fail to read the room, watch somebody try to tell students that Generative AI is the next industrial revolution:
Show threadJTI

@GossiTheDog Just as a practical observation:

  • I'm not sure if I would go as a far a "next industrial revolution", maybe tone it down 2 notches. It's a graduation speech so subtract 2 notches mentally anyway, right?
  • However: Those people in the audience will, if they want it or not, be impacted by it for the better part of a decade, their first decade in the industry.

  • Thus, they better get knowledgeable about it and prepare to weather that storm that is coming at them and make the best out of whatever it'll be. Negating or just booing it is not exactly the winning strategy in context of reality I'm afraid here. And I'd hope their degree programs did a good job at preparing them.

  • No rotten tomatoes, eggs etc were applied, so all good I guess, eh?

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Show threadMike McCaffrey 6d ago
@jti42 @GossiTheDog They sound plenty knowledgeable to me about the bullshit that tech capitalists are trying to get away with in their belligerent attack on workers, the planet, and society as a whole.
Show threadChris Adams6d ago
@jti42 @GossiTheDog I think it's more that they've spent the last couple of years hearing the leaders of most of the places they're hoping to get jobs at talking about layoffs and not hiring entry-level positions because of AI. Whether or not something is productive for the larger economy or even their personal proficiency levels, you're not going to get cheers from people who are personally facing tougher odds for getting what will be worse jobs.
Show threadJon F6d ago

@jti42 @GossiTheDog If the bubble pops, you may find the winning strategy could be the booing, rather than welcoming your new "ant overlords".

The coming of the internet which the speaker recalls also included a tech bust when a huge number of companies simply disappeared. How do you know which bits of the AI bubble are dot-com style tech wreck garbage, and which ones will survive? They ALL display appalling features right now.